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I'm looking into cloth diapers. What would be a good solution?

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I would like to invest in cloth diapers. I have found consumer reports have suggested bumGenious, and I have also seen Rainbow BB to be good as well. Has anyone tried these diapers, and if so, what would be best?

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About a month ago I started doing the research on cloth diapers for my ten month old. I actually used the old fashioned ones with the rubber pants on his older sister who is 18 going on 19 thinking she's 35 =). I ended up after much debate especially considering what if I don't like them and there's no toys r us or any baby gap near us where we are now. I can't just take them back so I researched. Really Charlie Banana didn't have many reviews just a few but the few they had were great reviews. Finally I ordered the diapers. He's been in them for about four days now. No leaks, I can double the inserts for night, probably triple if I need to, easy to use, easy to clean, and I'm just thrilled. I ordered the six pack so I got 12 washable inserts. Life is good and mr squirmy during diaper changes, actually lays still. We have already noticed a huge difference in how much healthier his skin looks.

I used Bum Genius 3.0 with my DD from birth until about 15 months. The only problem we had was a volume issue. As she got bigger, the diaper was just not able to handle the volume of pee and would leak. You can only make the diapers so thick before the clothes don't fit anymore! We found them very easy to use and clean. I have never wanted to try anything else.

If you're not sure what kind of diapers you want to use, you can always rent a newborn trial package - most will give you a variety of different diaper styles: AIO, AI2, pocket, prefolds, fitteds, and PUL covers. They don't usually include wool covers, from what I know, but you can find those on the cloth diaper swap board here. http://community.babycenter.com/groups/a69805/cloth_diaper_swap It took us MONTHS to learn much about diapers outside of BumGenius and prefolds/covers; if you head on over to the cloth diapering board http://community.babycenter.com/groups/a16235/cloth_diapering you can learn more about the different types of diapers available, different materials, and different detergents and washing routines (including washing with hard water or using a HE front loader). Using cloth can be a bit tricky at first, but once you understand it, it's not hard at all. Our son has been happily cloth diapered since he was about a month old (he's 10 months old now), and we love it!

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